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This painting was looted by the Nazis, then seized from my living room
Los Angeles Times ^ | December 4, 2016 | Craig Gilmore

Posted on 12/04/2016 10:13:48 AM PST by EveningStar

Two agents from U.S. Homeland Security’s ICE unit arrived at my door in September looking for a Polish lady — not a person, but a painting: Melchior Geldorp’s “Portrait of a Lady.” She had, they informed me, been looted by the Nazis from the National Museum in Warsaw.

Unsure if these gentlemen were indeed who they claimed to be, I didn’t invite them in. But I knew exactly what they were seeking: My partner, David, and I had purchased this very portrait — ostensibly the work of a different artist — a decade earlier from a major auction house in New York.

Upon their leaving, I stood dumbfounded, holding a packet of information about the alleged provenance of our painting. After calling David at work to drop this bombshell, I began a Googling frenzy, eventually bringing me to Poland’s Division for Looted Art website. Seconds later I was gawking at an old black-and-white photo of our beloved lady, a beautiful portrait painted on oak panel in 1628. Tears welled in my eyes with the realization that, without question, if this were true we needed to do our duty and get her safely home.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: California
KEYWORDS: art; california; craiggilmore; dhs; genderdysphoria; homelandsecurity; homosexualagenda; ice; lootedart; losangeles; losangelesslimes; losangelestimes; melchiorgeldorp; nationalmuseumwarsaw; naziloot; nazis; painting; poland; portraitofalady; warsaw
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To: Vermont Lt

Poland was threatening war. /sarcasm (or maybe not)


61 posted on 12/04/2016 11:27:25 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Pollster1

I thought that was Franco Harris after the immaculate reception.


62 posted on 12/04/2016 11:27:47 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Doesn't have to take 2 thousand years.

This sold for 10 cents in 1938.



63 posted on 12/04/2016 11:28:00 AM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Gay State Conservative

http://www.thepinkswastika.com/5294/index.html
Here’s a book about it.


64 posted on 12/04/2016 11:29:29 AM PST by sockmonkey (Donald Trump will ban auto-correct with an Executive Order. Go Trump!)
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To: EveningStar

Does the Warsaw Museum have title proving ownership (in a straight line) from the artist (c.1650’s), to c.1939?

Personally, I’d like to see that evidence. It’d be neat.


65 posted on 12/04/2016 11:31:03 AM PST by Noamie
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To: EveningStar
My partner, David, and I had purchased this very portrait...
66 posted on 12/04/2016 11:35:42 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: P.O.E.

They should switch to painters that are abundant. The guy who painted Dale Earnhardt Sr. on black velvet cranks them out all of the time and nobody steals them.


67 posted on 12/04/2016 11:35:42 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: null and void

Yeah, a $450 giclee is a great consolation.../S


68 posted on 12/04/2016 11:35:59 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through you're anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Davy liked it.

He has a shirt collar just like the one seen.


69 posted on 12/04/2016 11:36:38 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: okie01

Did you read? Second d paragraph.


70 posted on 12/04/2016 11:38:47 AM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: EveningStar

One other important part of this story that didn’t seem to be discussed is that this guy and his partner did not develop a conscience about the painting until the feds showed up on his doorstep. Probably slept like a baby before that,


71 posted on 12/04/2016 11:49:05 AM PST by Bernard (The Road To Hell Is Not Paved With Good Results)
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To: Palio di Siena

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gnwiTm4hRQ
I just watched the immaculate reception video, again, and I still don’t know how that happened or even what happened.


72 posted on 12/04/2016 11:53:07 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: miss marmelstein

They have been that way my whole adult life.

We’ve just never had a candidate, let along a President, with the balls to jam their b.s. right back down their throat.

What a fine thing that turns out to be.


73 posted on 12/04/2016 11:53:34 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Vendome

It should be. I made the nozzles the Iris Graphics printer used.


74 posted on 12/04/2016 11:56:08 AM PST by null and void ( If you defy federal law, we deny federal funds.)
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To: ConservativeMind

I hope they got to claim a loss on their tax return or somehow got some monetary compensation.


75 posted on 12/04/2016 11:56:22 AM PST by kiltie65
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To: Beagle8U

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>> “Yeah, it looks like really ugly woman dressed up as a poodle.” <<

Ruth Bader Ginsburg wearing her “protest collar?”’
.


76 posted on 12/04/2016 12:01:13 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: leaning conservative
Did you read? Second d paragraph. p> Hey, that's usually my line.

I read the first paragraph, clicked thru and apparently started on the third paragraph. Missed the 2nd 'graph entirely.

77 posted on 12/04/2016 12:02:52 PM PST by okie01 ( The MainStream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: editor-surveyor

That works too.


78 posted on 12/04/2016 12:06:05 PM PST by Beagle8U (Long live Yoga Pants!)
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To: okie01

I have done that so many times! It’s all good ; )


79 posted on 12/04/2016 12:17:07 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: EveningStar

The guy has class


80 posted on 12/04/2016 12:20:19 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Where's Hillary?)
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